Event #52: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

Event #52: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem

Day 1 Completed

06-18-2025 01:30 UTC-8

Liran Betito Bags the Top Spot Going into Day 2 of $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em

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Laura Fryer

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

After 15 levels of play, the first day of Event #52: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em at the 2025 World Series of Poker hosted by Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas came to a close with only 354 players remaining from the original 2,318 runners. Of those who advanced to Day 2, just 348 of them will make the money and compete for a share of the $3,077,145 prize pool.

The champion will take home an iconic World Series of Poker gold bracelet along with an impressive $410,426 top prize.

Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Liran Betito	Israel	555,900	93
2	Bing Li	China	540,000	90
3	Pedro Fernandes	Portugal	524,000	87
4	Amir Minagar	Australia	509,000	85
5	Asher Conniff	United States	502,000	84
6	David Daneshgar	United States	493,000	82
7	Frank Lagodich	United States	489,000	82
8	Jose Rendon	Mexico	474,000	79
9	Michael Wasserman	United States	471,000	79
10	Zachary Hall	United States	438,000	73

Liran Betito sits at the top of the counts heading into Day 2. Betito stayed under the radar throughout the day and emerged as the chip leader only during the last level of the day. Bing Li sits in second place, thanks to his late-night knockout of Connor Rash.

A number of notables entered the field, but only a handful made it through to Day 2. WSOP bracelet winner Asher Conniff made it to the top five of the counts going into Day 2, closely followed by fellow bracelet winner and recent Life Outside Poker podcast guest David Daneshgar. Jason Wheeler is also among the top of the pack along with Faraz Jaka and Bryan Piccioli.

Many 25K Fantasy players came and left, with a lot jumping in at the end of late registration. Only a handful remain: Nicholas Palma, Georgios Sotiropoulos, Dong Chen, David Coleman, Felipe Ramos, Renji Mao, Jake Schwartz and Joe Cada.

Kristen Foxen was among those still in the 25K Fantasy draft list and a four-time WSOP bracelet winner. Foxen came to play as she took down a number of pots, including one against Anthony Merlo where she opened 4♦5♦. Foxen returns with just 45,500 chips, putting her near the bottom of the pack. She will be looking to hold her ground and gain those all-important fantasy league points by securing a cash, as the bubble is likely to burst within the first few hands of the day.

Payouts

Place	Prize	Place	Prize
1	$410,426	27-35	$12,762
2	$273,545	36-44	$10,603
3	$200,173	45-53	$8,910
4	$147,952	54-62	$7,574
5	$110,463	63-71	$6,513
6	$83,318	72-80	$5,667
7	$63,494	81-89	$4,990
8	$48,892	90-98	$4,447
9	$38,047	99-125	$4,012
10	$29,923	126-161	$3,664
11	$29,923	162-197	$3,388
12-13	$23,788	198-233	$3,173
14-17	$19,117	234-348	$3,022
18-26	$15,533

Play resumes at 1 p.m. local time on June 18 at Level 16 with 3,000/6,000 blinds and 6,000 big blind ante. Ten one-hour levels will be played through, with 15-minute breaks every two levels. The dinner break will take place at the end of Level 23 (at approximately 7.30 p.m.).

Stay tuned to PokerNews to follow all the Day 2 action as we follow this event until a winner is crowned.

Tags: Amir Minagar Anthony Merlo Asher Conniff Bing Li Bryan Piccioli Connor Rash David Coleman David Daneshgar Dong Chen Faraz Jaka Felipe Ramos Frank Lagodich Georgios Sotiropoulos Jake Schwartz Jason Wheeler Joe Cada Jose Rendon Kristen Foxen Liran Betito Liran Betito Bags Michael Wasserman Nicholas Palma Pedro Fernandes Renji Mao Zachary Hall

06-18-2025 01:29 UTC-8

Day 2 Seat Draw

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Matthew Pitt

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Casino	Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Event Center	Bronze 601	1	Hedi Boussetta	France	29,000	5
Event Center	Bronze 601	2	Suhail Khan	United States	63,009	11
Event Center	Bronze 601	3	Jinlong Hu	China	27,000	5
Event Center	Bronze 601	4	Pablo Roman	Argentina	390,000	65
Event Center	Bronze 601	5	Simeon Tsonev	Bulgaria	52,000	9
Event Center	Bronze 601	7	Robert Noel	United States	103,000	17
Event Center	Bronze 601	8	Drew Oconnell	United States	231,000	39
Event Center	Bronze 601	9	Simas Karaliunas	Lithuania	66,000	11

Event Center	Bronze 602	1	Eliyahu Saado	Israel	124,000	21
Event Center	Bronze 602	2	Mauro Francolini	Italy	276,000	46
Event Center	Bronze 602	3	Blair Hinkle	United States	172,000	29
Event Center	Bronze 602	4	Benoit Guenet	France	102,000	17
Event Center	Bronze 602	5	Jon Gottlieb	United States	309,000	52
Event Center	Bronze 602	6	Ronald Katz	United States	37,000	6
Event Center	Bronze 602	7	Thanhlong Nguyen	United States	92,000	15
Event Center	Bronze 602	8	Ruiko Mamiya	Japan	193,000	32
Event Center	Bronze 602	9	Di Liu	United States	365,000	61

Event Center	Bronze 603	1	Kartik Ved	India	186,000	31
Event Center	Bronze 603	2	Paul Snead	United States	100,000	17
Event Center	Bronze 603	3	Justin Lett	United States	77,000	13
Event Center	Bronze 603	4	Gonzalo Coloma	Spain	265,000	44
Event Center	Bronze 603	5	Wang Lee	United States	145,000	24
Event Center	Bronze 603	6	Samuel Rosborough	United States	252,000	42
Event Center	Bronze 603	7	Carlos Guerrero	Colombia	74,000	12
Event Center	Bronze 603	8	James Gilbert	United States	139,000	23
Event Center	Bronze 603	9	Michael Mitchell	United States	73,000	12

Event Center	Bronze 604	1	Andreas Kniep	Germany	171,000	29
Event Center	Bronze 604	2	Brett Apter	United States	288,000	48
Event Center	Bronze 604	3	Yayun Liu	China	411,000	69
Event Center	Bronze 604	4	Sonny Franco	France	363,000	61
Event Center	Bronze 604	5	Scott Schauer	United States	123,000	21
Event Center	Bronze 604	6	Kimberly Durham	United States	100,000	17
Event Center	Bronze 604	7	Margaret Fox	United States	168,000	28
Event Center	Bronze 604	8	Xiaozhe Liu	China	160,000	27

Event Center	Bronze 605	1	Philip Almond	United Kingdom	282,000	47
Event Center	Bronze 605	2	Brady Born	United States	211,000	35
Event Center	Bronze 605	3	Yang Lei	Australia	167,000	28
Event Center	Bronze 605	4	Ashish Anilkumar	India	68,000	11
Event Center	Bronze 605	5	Jules Rohr	France	82,000	14
Event Center	Bronze 605	6	Konstantinos Patsourakis	Greece	69,000	12
Event Center	Bronze 605	7	Jason Wheeler	United States	365,000	61
Event Center	Bronze 605	8	Ionnis Oikonomidis	Greece	102,000	17
Event Center	Bronze 605	9	John Gorsuch	United States	126,000	21

Event Center	Bronze 606	1	Iman Alsaden	United States	83,000	14
Event Center	Bronze 606	2	Alejandro Herrera	Spain	303,000	51
Event Center	Bronze 606	3	Samuel Laskowitz	United States	124,000	21
Event Center	Bronze 606	4	Alex Jim	United States	188,000	31
Event Center	Bronze 606	5	Jeremy Ansher	United States	154,000	26
Event Center	Bronze 606	6	Tanupat Punjarojanakul	United States	70,000	12
Event Center	Bronze 606	7	Yang Zhang	China	276,000	46
Event Center	Bronze 606	8	Aaron Johnson	United States	69,000	12
Event Center	Bronze 606	9	Marianne Ambrosini	United States	158,000	26

Event Center	Bronze 607	1	Raymond Geary	United States	112,000	19
Event Center	Bronze 607	2	George Wyatt	United Kingdom	137,000	23
Event Center	Bronze 607	3	Anthony Hu	United States	212,000	35
Event Center	Bronze 607	4	Valentino Konakchiev	Bulgaria	100,000	17
Event Center	Bronze 607	5	Alex Loyer	United States	18,000	3
Event Center	Bronze 607	6	William Berry	United States	211,000	35
Event Center	Bronze 607	7	Julio Belluscio	Argentina	261,000	44
Event Center	Bronze 607	8	Zachary Baron	United States	67,000	11
Event Center	Bronze 607	9	Stanislav Ivanov	Bulgaria	26,000	4

Event Center	Bronze 608	1	[Removed:599]	France	247,000	41
Event Center	Bronze 608	2	Daniel Ferreira	United States	66,000	11
Event Center	Bronze 608	3	Sundiata S Devore	United States	40,000	7
Event Center	Bronze 608	4	Shijia Liu	United States	193,000	32
Event Center	Bronze 608	5	Bryan Paris	United States	78,000	13
Event Center	Bronze 608	6	Cero Zuccarello	United States	64,000	11
Event Center	Bronze 608	7	Vanna Tea	United States	48,000	8
Event Center	Bronze 608	8	Sandipan Das	India	151,000	25
Event Center	Bronze 608	9	Keven Stammen	United States	275,000	46

Event Center	Bronze 609	1	Kenneth Gregory	United States	116,000	19
Event Center	Bronze 609	2	Rodney Liou	France	106,000	18
Event Center	Bronze 609	3	Alexis Andre	France	8,000	1
Event Center	Bronze 609	4	Christopher Corbo	United States	39,000	7
Event Center	Bronze 609	5	Hajime Watanabe	Japan	188,000	31
Event Center	Bronze 609	6	Michel Molenaar	Netherlands	48,000	8
Event Center	Bronze 609	7	Garry Gates	United States	136,000	23
Event Center	Bronze 609	8	Ori Hasson	Israel	99,000	17
Event Center	Bronze 609	9	Pablo Garcia	Austria	175,000	29

Event Center	Bronze 610	1	Anthony Ruberto	United States	324,000	54
Event Center	Bronze 610	2	Brandon Sowers	United States	257,000	43
Event Center	Bronze 610	3	Pedro Fernandes	Portugal	524,000	87
Event Center	Bronze 610	4	Brian Wardrup	United States	186,000	31
Event Center	Bronze 610	5	Zhen Cai	United States	69,000	12
Event Center	Bronze 610	6	Vincent Laise	Canada	68,000	11
Event Center	Bronze 610	7	Felipe Ramos	Brazil	90,000	15
Event Center	Bronze 610	8	Adam Razny	Canada	37,000	6
Event Center	Bronze 610	9	Vinicius Lima	United States	169,000	28

Event Center	Bronze 611	1	Matthew Simila	United States	273,000	46
Event Center	Bronze 611	2	John Gallaher	United States	172,000	29
Event Center	Bronze 611	3	Kenneth Quattrocchi	United States	194,000	32
Event Center	Bronze 611	4	Mengfan Dai	United States	43,000	7
Event Center	Bronze 611	5	Gregory Katayama	Canada	196,000	33
Event Center	Bronze 611	6	Arin Youssefian	United States	154,000	26
Event Center	Bronze 611	7	Amin Hosein	Trinidad & Tobago	85,000	14
Event Center	Bronze 611	8	Derek Staib	United States	88,000	15
Event Center	Bronze 611	9	Charlie Cuff	United Kingdom	193,000	32

Event Center	Bronze 612	1	Noriomi Naganuma	Japan	128,000	21
Event Center	Bronze 612	2	Davide Suriano	Italy	131,000	22
Event Center	Bronze 612	3	Mathieu Selides	France	150,000	25
Event Center	Bronze 612	4	Ashton Nikzad	United States	211,000	35
Event Center	Bronze 612	5	Josh Mok	United States	118,000	20
Event Center	Bronze 612	6	Bing Li	China	540,000	90
Event Center	Bronze 612	7	Michael Robinson	United States	87,000	15
Event Center	Bronze 612	8	Sebastian Henao	Colombia	253,000	42
Event Center	Bronze 612	9	Nischal Colluru	United States	142,000	24

Event Center	Bronze 613	1	Cassandra Yong	United Kingdom	175,000	29
Event Center	Bronze 613	2	Joseph Schreck	United States	180,000	30
Event Center	Bronze 613	3	Matthew Perez	United States	110,000	18
Event Center	Bronze 613	4	Ben Collins	United Kingdom	262,000	44
Event Center	Bronze 613	5	Bradley Gafford	United States	34,000	6
Event Center	Bronze 613	6	Alvaro Molina	Costa Rica	63,000	11
Event Center	Bronze 613	7	Sebastian Supper	Austria	236,000	39
Event Center	Bronze 613	8	David Jackson	United States	101,000	17
Event Center	Bronze 613	9	Todd Lockhart	United States	182,000	30

Event Center	Bronze 614	1	Chofungalan Wong	Hong Kong	379,000	63
Event Center	Bronze 614	2	Trevor Teehan	United States	50,000	8
Event Center	Bronze 614	3	Nicholas Jacobs	United States	205,000	34
Event Center	Bronze 614	4	Yaniv Peretz	Israel	436,000	73
Event Center	Bronze 614	5	Joshua Dubinsky	United States	123,000	21
Event Center	Bronze 614	6	Adam Brantmier	United States	109,000	18
Event Center	Bronze 614	7	Frank Marasco	United States	135,000	23
Event Center	Bronze 614	8	Victor Fryda	France	166,000	28
Event Center	Bronze 614	9	Sin Lan Chen	Taiwan	246,000	41

Event Center	Bronze 615	1	Bogdan Munteanu	Bulgaria	27,800	5
Event Center	Bronze 615	2	Carlos Tomas Leal Kinil	Mexico	314,000	52
Event Center	Bronze 615	3	Jeffrey Milkey	United States	124,000	21
Event Center	Bronze 615	4	Samuel Stranak	Slovakia	77,000	13
Event Center	Bronze 615	5	Ying Chan	United Kingdom	40,000	7
Event Center	Bronze 615	6	Derek Normand	United States	270,000	45
Event Center	Bronze 615	7	Nicholas Funaro	United States	78,000	13
Event Center	Bronze 615	8	David Daneshgar	United States	493,000	82
Event Center	Bronze 615	9	Alessandro Pichierri	Italy	34,000	6

Event Center	Bronze 616	1	Renji Mao	China	39,000	7
Event Center	Bronze 616	2	James Sowers	United States	351,000	59
Event Center	Bronze 616	3	Wim Verhaegen	Belgium	210,000	35
Event Center	Bronze 616	4	Clifton Purkiser	United States	169,000	28
Event Center	Bronze 616	5	Kuowei Kao	Taiwan	103,000	17
Event Center	Bronze 616	6	Richard Ladick	United States	173,000	29
Event Center	Bronze 616	7	Joao Oliveira	Portugal	150,000	25
Event Center	Bronze 616	8	Kristaps Kalva	United States	160,000	27
Event Center	Bronze 616	9	Tommy Townsend	United States	109,000	18

Event Center	Bronze 617	1	Vineet Pahuja	United States	25,000	4
Event Center	Bronze 617	2	Rock Eanes	United States	289,000	48
Event Center	Bronze 617	3	Wesley Cannon	United States	120,000	20
Event Center	Bronze 617	4	Mateusz Moolhuizen	Netherlands	86,000	14
Event Center	Bronze 617	5	Boyd Rose	Canada	118,000	20
Event Center	Bronze 617	6	Aaron Massey	United States	278,000	46
Event Center	Bronze 617	7	Valentin Vornicu	United States	198,000	33
Event Center	Bronze 617	8	Chia Ping Huang	Taiwan	88,000	15
Event Center	Bronze 617	9	Giuseppe Pantaleo	United States	75,000	13

Event Center	Bronze 618	1	Ronnie Day	United States	92,000	15
Event Center	Bronze 618	2	Jhonathan Meneses	Colombia	415,000	69
Event Center	Bronze 618	3	David E Coleman	United States	133,000	22
Event Center	Bronze 618	4	William Chonka	United States	215,000	36
Event Center	Bronze 618	5	Dean Phelps	United States	94,000	16
Event Center	Bronze 618	6	Hugo Dela Fouchardiere	France	399,000	67
Event Center	Bronze 618	7	Iraklis Manikaros	Greece	67,000	11
Event Center	Bronze 618	8	Joseph Cada	United States	7,000	1
Event Center	Bronze 618	9	Steven Karp	United States	171,000	29

Event Center	Bronze 619	1	Owen Carpenter	United States	86,000	14
Event Center	Bronze 619	2	John Gonzalez	United States	137,000	23
Event Center	Bronze 619	3	Mihai Manole	Romania	56,000	9
Event Center	Bronze 619	5	Alexis Kivu	Austria	251,000	42
Event Center	Bronze 619	6	Matas Cikinas	Lithuania	355,000	59
Event Center	Bronze 619	7	Lawrence Robak	United States	196	0
Event Center	Bronze 619	8	Bryan Schultz	United States	125,000	21
Event Center	Bronze 619	9	Ying Li	China	118,000	20

Event Center	Bronze 620	1	Steven Mccartney	United States	138,000	23
Event Center	Bronze 620	2	Dinesh Alt	Switzerland	235,000	39
Event Center	Bronze 620	3	Travis Graeme Endersby	Australia	79,000	13
Event Center	Bronze 620	4	Jose Aguilera	Spain	126,000	21
Event Center	Bronze 620	5	Ken Beckers	Belgium	111,000	19
Event Center	Bronze 620	7	Clinton Cartwright	United States	47,000	8
Event Center	Bronze 620	8	John Bunch	United States	97,000	16
Event Center	Bronze 620	9	Zachary Hall	United States	438,000	73

Event Center	Bronze 621	1	Daniel Cronin	United States	79,000	13
Event Center	Bronze 621	2	Frank Thomas Lagodich	United States	489,000	82
Event Center	Bronze 621	3	Bryan Piccioli	United States	339,000	57
Event Center	Bronze 621	4	Jagdeep Bal	United States	172,000	29
Event Center	Bronze 621	5	Yuchi Han	United States	77,000	13
Event Center	Bronze 621	6	Jake Schwartz	United States	39,000	7
Event Center	Bronze 621	7	Derek Kwan	United States	146,000	24
Event Center	Bronze 621	8	Gabriel Moura	United States	34,000	6
Event Center	Bronze 621	9	Yuanzhi Cao	United States	99,000	17

Event Center	Bronze 622	1	Jeremy Saderne	France	96,000	16
Event Center	Bronze 622	2	Ran Kadur	Israel	76,000	13
Event Center	Bronze 622	4	Edward Pak	United States	226,000	38
Event Center	Bronze 622	5	Kurt Fitzgerald	United States	322,000	54
Event Center	Bronze 622	6	Liu Yang	China	149,000	25
Event Center	Bronze 622	7	Romik Vartzar	United States	292,000	49
Event Center	Bronze 622	8	Dennys Luis Ramos	Brazil	397,000	66
Event Center	Bronze 622	9	John Ripnick	United States	36,000	6

Event Center	Bronze 623	1	Matthew Baldwin	United States	148,000	25
Event Center	Bronze 623	2	Asher Conniff	United States	502,000	84
Event Center	Bronze 623	3	Seamus Cahill	Ireland	105,000	18
Event Center	Bronze 623	4	Chen-An Lin	Taiwan	172,000	29
Event Center	Bronze 623	5	Clement Bonnant	France	89,000	15
Event Center	Bronze 623	6	Qing You	China	108,000	18
Event Center	Bronze 623	7	Georgios Sotiropoulos	Greece	202,000	34
Event Center	Bronze 623	8	Florencio Campomanes	Philippines	191,000	32
Event Center	Bronze 623	9	Benjamin Dobson	United Kingdom	77,000	13

Event Center	Bronze 624	1	Amit Makhija	United States	62,000	10
Event Center	Bronze 624	2	Stoyan Madanzhiev	Bulgaria	135,000	23
Event Center	Bronze 624	3	Eduards Rakuss	Latvia	192,000	32
Event Center	Bronze 624	4	Matthew Allison	United States	159,000	27
Event Center	Bronze 624	5	William Wolf	United States	329,000	55
Event Center	Bronze 624	6	David Mowery	United States	75,000	13
Event Center	Bronze 624	7	Sung Lee	United States	189,000	32
Event Center	Bronze 624	8	Sebastien Proulx	Canada	72,000	12
Event Center	Bronze 624	9	Jesus Zapata	United States	79,000	13

Event Center	Bronze 625	1	Amir Minagar	Australia	509,000	85
Event Center	Bronze 625	2	Joshua Palmer	United States	196,000	33
Event Center	Bronze 625	3	Dennis Krusch	Germany	81,000	14
Event Center	Bronze 625	4	William Aprile	United States	233,000	39
Event Center	Bronze 625	5	Abhinav Iyer	India	43,000	7
Event Center	Bronze 625	6	Ian Crampton	United States	67,000	11
Event Center	Bronze 625	7	Jared Dairy	United States	164,000	27
Event Center	Bronze 625	8	Vitor De Souza Coutinho	Brazil	234,000	39
Event Center	Bronze 625	9	Faraz Jaka	United States	339,000	57

Event Center	Gold 626	1	Murat Aras	France	190,000	32
Event Center	Gold 626	2	Thanh Bui	United States	53,000	9
Event Center	Gold 626	3	Chunhui Ji	China	371,000	62
Event Center	Gold 626	4	Roman Nuraev	Russia	385,000	64
Event Center	Gold 626	5	Jose Rendon	Mexico	474,000	79
Event Center	Gold 626	6	Lauren Bunch	United States	122,000	20
Event Center	Gold 626	7	Martin Mathis	United States	132,000	22
Event Center	Gold 626	8	Robert Brown	United States	212,000	35
Event Center	Gold 626	9	Johnnie Moreno	United States	326,000	54

Event Center	Gold 627	1	Miguel Lopes	Portugal	191,000	32
Event Center	Gold 627	2	Gang Hong	China	151,000	25
Event Center	Gold 627	3	Harrison Plott	United States	126,000	21
Event Center	Gold 627	4	Victor Catella	United States	16,000	3
Event Center	Gold 627	5	Olga Iermolcheva	Ukraine	92,000	15
Event Center	Gold 627	6	Brevin Andreadis	United States	96,000	16
Event Center	Gold 627	7	Nicholas Palma	United States	271,000	45
Event Center	Gold 627	8	Anoop Randhawa	Canada	309,000	52
Event Center	Gold 627	9	Vaughan Machado	United States	59,000	10

Event Center	Gold 628	1	Jacopo Achille	Italy	64,000	11
Event Center	Gold 628	2	Timothy Thorp	United States	76,000	13
Event Center	Gold 628	3	John Jacob	United States	114,000	19
Event Center	Gold 628	4	Matthias Auer	Austria	161,000	27
Event Center	Gold 628	5	Jiawei Mao	China	147,000	25
Event Center	Gold 628	6	Hang Xu	United Kingdom	88,000	15
Event Center	Gold 628	7	Shayne Mogilski	United States	80,000	13
Event Center	Gold 628	8	Tyler Kolness	United States	108,000	18
Event Center	Gold 628	9	Eric Berman	United States	103,000	17

Event Center	Gold 629	1	Vincas Tamasauskas	Lithuania	157,000	26
Event Center	Gold 629	2	Yaroslav Ohulchanskyi	Ukraine	155,000	26
Event Center	Gold 629	3	Tuan Nguyen	Australia	74,000	12
Event Center	Gold 629	4	Ezequiel Waigel	Argentina	163,000	27
Event Center	Gold 629	5	Jasthi Kumar	United States	72,000	12
Event Center	Gold 629	6	Samuel Dray	France	155,000	26
Event Center	Gold 629	7	Ivan Poroliev	Bulgaria	168,000	28
Event Center	Gold 629	8	Mark Darner	United States	90,000	15
Event Center	Gold 629	9	Joshua Berthiaume	United States	133,000	22

Event Center	Gold 630	1	Jonathan Stephens	United States	89,000	15
Event Center	Gold 630	2	Breno Drumond	Brazil	6,000	1
Event Center	Gold 630	3	Brian Twitty	United States	50,000	8
Event Center	Gold 630	4	Antonios Poziadis	Greece	190,000	32
Event Center	Gold 630	5	Robert Delvo	Canada	19,000	3
Event Center	Gold 630	6	Nicholas Surges	United States	145,000	24
Event Center	Gold 630	8	Patricia Moore	United States	120,000	20
Event Center	Gold 630	9	Ichun Chiu	Taiwan	369,000	62

Event Center	Gold 631	1	Ran Koller	Israel	239,000	40
Event Center	Gold 631	2	Bryan Frantz	United States	187,000	31
Event Center	Gold 631	3	Chun Law	United Kingdom	186,000	31
Event Center	Gold 631	4	Jason Velasco	United States	29,000	5
Event Center	Gold 631	5	Uke Dauti	United States	347,000	58
Event Center	Gold 631	6	Beau Stanton	United States	60,000	10
Event Center	Gold 631	7	John Ypma	United States	273,000	46
Event Center	Gold 631	8	Francis Alegado	United States	190,000	32
Event Center	Gold 631	9	Sergio Barrios	Mexico	77,000	13

Event Center	Gold 634	1	Jamie Gold	United States	243,000	41
Event Center	Gold 634	2	Robert Bickley	United Kingdom	258,000	43
Event Center	Gold 634	3	Jason Brauda	United States	192,000	32
Event Center	Gold 634	4	Matthew Bode	Germany	135,000	23
Event Center	Gold 634	5	Chijen Chen	Taiwan	156,000	26
Event Center	Gold 634	6	Florian Bordet	France	155,000	26
Event Center	Gold 634	7	Itay Kimhi	Israel	214,000	36
Event Center	Gold 634	8	Axel Bayout	France	47,000	8
Event Center	Gold 634	9	Asher Lord	United States	42,000	7

Event Center	Gold 635	1	Daniel Hirose	United States	41,000	7
Event Center	Gold 635	2	Guofeng Wang	China	250,000	42
Event Center	Gold 635	3	Bartlomiej Swieboda	Poland	198,000	33
Event Center	Gold 635	4	Alex Lindop	United Kingdom	48,000	8
Event Center	Gold 635	5	Scott Weinstein	United States	294,000	49
Event Center	Gold 635	6	Joshua Oneal	United States	73,000	12
Event Center	Gold 635	7	Justin Lapka	United States	22,000	4
Event Center	Gold 635	8	Kristen Foxen	United States	45,500	8
Event Center	Gold 635	9	Richard Dombek	United States	83,000	14

Event Center	Gold 636	1	Michael Wasserman	United States	471,000	79
Event Center	Gold 636	2	Liran Betito	Israel	555,900	93
Event Center	Gold 636	3	Anthony Ditaranto	United States	169,000	28
Event Center	Gold 636	4	Namir Mohamed	Ireland	151,000	25
Event Center	Gold 636	5	Sam Razavi	United Kingdom	40,000	7
Event Center	Gold 636	6	Leo Worthingtonleese	United Kingdom	189,000	32
Event Center	Gold 636	7	Roberto Bendeck	United States	78,000	13
Event Center	Gold 636	8	Sivaraman Ramakrishnan	India	45,000	8
Event Center	Gold 636	9	Casey Hatmaker	United States	279,000	47

Event Center	Gold 637	1	Jai Vallurupalli	United States	119,000	20
Event Center	Gold 637	2	Vincent Meli	France	237,000	40
Event Center	Gold 637	3	Mihai Isar	Romania	85,000	14
Event Center	Gold 637	4	Martin Carnero	United States	145,000	24
Event Center	Gold 637	5	Tawei Tou	Taiwan	30,000	5
Event Center	Gold 637	6	Rabia Lew	United States	50,000	8
Event Center	Gold 637	7	Ben Gazzola	United States	254,000	42
Event Center	Gold 637	8	Andrew Maguire	United States	125,000	21
Event Center	Gold 637	9	Kevin Masefield	Netherlands	253,000	42

Event Center	Gold 638	1	Daniyal Gheba	United States	230,000	38
Event Center	Gold 638	2	Anthony Hall	United States	133,000	22
Event Center	Gold 638	3	Xing Wei	United States	109,000	18
Event Center	Gold 638	4	Daniel Jackson	United Kingdom	178,000	30
Event Center	Gold 638	5	Sanghoon Choi	South Korea	390,000	65
Event Center	Gold 638	6	Arkadiy Tsinis	Ukraine	45,000	8
Event Center	Gold 638	7	Raymond Eifler	United States	105,000	18
Event Center	Gold 638	8	Shunqing Zhang	United States	168,000	28
Event Center	Gold 638	9	Rod Fani	United States	92,000	15

Event Center	Gold 639	1	Minh Phan	United States	158,000	26
Event Center	Gold 639	2	Joshua Weiss	United States	31,000	5
Event Center	Gold 639	3	Conor O'Rourke	Ireland	430,000	72
Event Center	Gold 639	4	Congya Zhang	China	112,000	19
Event Center	Gold 639	5	Jinwoo Kim	South Korea	43,000	7
Event Center	Gold 639	6	Ru Mao	China	98,000	16
Event Center	Gold 639	7	Michael Rossitto	Italy	343,000	57
Event Center	Gold 639	8	Ryan Hemmel	United States	116,000	19
Event Center	Gold 639	9	Michael Amato	United States	55,000	9

Event Center	Gold 642	1	Justin Nugent	United States	250,000	42
Event Center	Gold 642	2	Christopher Whitaker	United Kingdom	69,000	12
Event Center	Gold 642	3	Roberto Riva	United States	73,000	12
Event Center	Gold 642	4	Dong Chen	China	188,000	31
Event Center	Gold 642	5	Hung-Wei Shiue	Taiwan	79,000	13
Event Center	Gold 642	6	Michael Jukich	United States	244,000	41
Event Center	Gold 642	7	Khalifa Tayar	Israel	77,000	13
Event Center	Gold 642	8	Hao Chuang	China	92,000	15
Event Center	Gold 642	9	Benjamin Kramer	United States	195,000	33

Event Center	Gold 643	1	Charles Keisling	United States	430,000	72
Event Center	Gold 643	2	Nicolas Betbese	Spain	150,000	25
Event Center	Gold 643	3	Kenneth Milano	United States	129,000	22
Event Center	Gold 643	4	Clifford Mills	United States	96,000	16
Event Center	Gold 643	5	Tomoya Kakihara	Japan	349,000	58
Event Center	Gold 643	6	David Cook	United States	219,000	37
Event Center	Gold 643	7	Kade Venkatesan	United States	157,000	26
Event Center	Gold 643	8	Brian Borst	United States	259,000	43
Event Center	Gold 643	9	Anzhela Vasylenko	Ukraine	142,000	24

Event Center	Gold 644	1	Jamie Dwan	United Kingdom	96,000	16
Event Center	Gold 644	2	Arthur Kramer	United States	76,000	13
Event Center	Gold 644	3	Feiyue Wu	China	182,000	30
Event Center	Gold 644	4	Shawn R Stroke	United States	326,000	54
Event Center	Gold 644	5	Kenji Hamamoto	Japan	136,000	23
Event Center	Gold 644	6	Cedric Schwaederle	France	20,000	3
Event Center	Gold 644	7	Benson Tang	United States	134,000	22
Event Center	Gold 644	8	Matan Mesika	India	101,000	17
Event Center	Gold 644	9	Kevin Abecassis	United States	275,000	46

06-18-2025 00:44 UTC-8

End of Day Chip Counts According to the WSOP+ App (full)

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Laura Fryer

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Liran Betito	555,900 555,900	555,900
Bing Li	540,000 5,000	5,000
Pedro Fernandes	524,000 524,000	524,000
Amir Minagar	509,000 509,000	509,000
Asher Conniff	502,000 477,000	477,000

David Daneshgar	493,000 493,000	493,000

Frank Lagodich	489,000 489,000	489,000
Jose Rendon	474,000 84,000	84,000
Michael Wasserman	471,000 471,000	471,000
Zachary Hall	438,000 438,000	438,000
Yaniv Peretz	436,000 436,000	436,000
Charles Keisling	430,000 430,000	430,000
Conor Orourke	430,000 262,000	262,000
Jhonathan Meneses	415,000 415,000	415,000
Yayun Liu	411,000 411,000	411,000
Hugo Fouchardiere	399,000 164,000	164,000
Dennys Ramos	397,000 306,000	306,000
Sanghoon Choi	390,000 390,000	390,000
Pablo Roman	390,000 390,000	390,000
Roman Nuraev	385,000 110,000	110,000
Chofungalan Wong	379,000 77,000	77,000
Chunhui Ji	371,000 109,000	109,000
Ichun Chiu	369,000 369,000	369,000
Di Liu	365,000 245,000	245,000
Jason Wheeler	365,000 365,000	365,000

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06-18-2025 00:16 UTC-8

The Remaining Players Bag

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

The bubble did not burst but they'll be less than a table away when they return to play at tomorrow at 1 p.m. local last Vegas time

06-18-2025 00:14 UTC-8

Ji Double Jinxed Gabarre

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Stephane Gabarre was all in, in the big blind for his last 3,000 in chips. Florian Bordet limped the button when it goe to him but Chunhui Ji responded with a raise to 25,000 and Bordet folded.

Stephane Gabarre: K♣2♠ All in
Chunhui Ji: J♠J♦

Ji was rooting for his short-stacked opponent for Gabarre, chanting "King, king!" and his wish came true when the flop spread A♠K♠3♠ and it appeared Gabarre would at least put a few chips in the bag when the 8♦ fell but it wasn't meant to be when Ji made a set with the J♣, eliminating Gabarre.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chunhui Ji	262,000 212,000	212,000
Florian Bordet	75,000
Stephane Gabarre	Busted

Tags: Chunhui Ji Florian Bordet Stephane Gabarre

06-17-2025 23:59 UTC-8

Seven Hands Left on the Night

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

With ten minutes left on the clock for the evening, the tournament director has announced that all tables will play seven hands before calling it a night.

The field is only eleven eliminations from bursting the bubble, which could happen by the end of night.

06-17-2025 23:57 UTC-8

A Few Notables as the End of Night Approaches

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Faraz Jaka	365,000

Nick Palma	190,000 134,300	134,300
Jamie Gold	165,000 8,000	8,000

Matthew Bode	155,000 115,000	115,000

Drew Gonzalez	65,000

Kristen Foxen	51,000 5,500	5,500

06-17-2025 23:43 UTC-8

Beckers Catches His Card; Zuccarello Chips Down

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Ken Beckers had his last 62,000 all in and at risk against Cero Zuccarello.

Ken Beckers: A♥9♥ All in
Cero Zuccarello: A♦K♦

Zuccarello seemed poised to eliminate his opponent when the 9♦7♠J♦ rolled off, although it did give Beckers a gut shot to go with his dangler.

The 9♣ turn was a dagger to Zuccarello and he was unable to improve when the Q♥ fell, allowing Beckers to collect a full double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ken Beckers	124,000 124,000	124,000
Cero Zuccarello	45,000

Tags: Cero Zuccarello Ken Beckers

06-17-2025 23:34 UTC-8

Some Late Night Eliminations

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Laura Fryer

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Nathaniel Silver	Busted
Peter Brown	Busted
Sasidhar Bobba	Busted
Adam Krach	Busted
Hersh Mahajan	Busted
Likith Govindaiah	Busted
Ian Hirasa	Busted
Bret Martin	Busted
Justas Vaiciulionis	Busted

Lok Chan	Busted

Matthew Beinner	Busted
Timothy Flattery	Busted
Maxime Chilaud	Busted
Connor Rash	Busted
Arthur Morris	Busted
Patrick White	Busted
Tomas Soderstrom	Busted
Virgile Turchi	Busted
Dustin Apperson	Busted
Albert Morrow	Busted
Robert Hover	Busted
Walter Ripper	Busted
Thomas Mccormick	Busted
Joan Crespi	Busted
Mario Lopez (IT)	Busted

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